Eric Carroll;180082 Wrote: > > Maybe I am not expressing this well enough and you could eloborate or > say it better. The point I am making is that many people feel offended > when someone says "it got better" and "thus it is due to X" and someone > else says "did you ABX it" - they interpret this to mean that the ABX > comment means they did NOT hear an improvement, and that their > conclusion the improvement is from A (which is what they changed) is > wrong.
Actually, I don't know why people get offended by it, but that I think is the real root problem and why it has become a sticking point. Can't we all agree on some basic realities: 1) Human perception is easily fooled by a variety of influences (loouder, hints, expectations, etc... some obvious, some subtle) 2) Removing as many external influences as possible is necessary to do any scientific test (ie, in chemistry you record the room temperature to make sure "the A/C was broken that day" is accounted for). 3) Admkitting that your mind is fallabile isn't an insult: everyone has the same problem. It doesnt mean your ears arent golden either. This is why DBT is used for drug tests: because peoples expectations of getting better corrupt the data. (It is scary how many placebos for th -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
